A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.
Acting
Paddy Considine's quiet devastation vs Oscar Isaac's twitchy chaos.
Writing
Burns' script finds bleak humor in bureaucratic radiation poisoning.
Production
Moscow locations reek of authentic post-Soviet exhaustion.
Director
Scott Z. Burns
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